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Touch Of Noir

Touch Of Noir: Top Ten Film Noir Villains

July 28, 2013 by Katherine Springer

Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947)

Film noir has known its share of villains, but these are the 10 best film noir villains to ever grace the silver screen.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Features, Frame of Mind, Movies, Top 10 Movies, Touch Of Noir Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Angela Lansbury, Clifton Webb, Dennis Hopper, Howard Hawks, John Frankenheimer, John Huston, Orson Welles, Richard Widmark, Sydney Greenstreet

Touch Of Noir: Humphrey Bogart Finds Himself ‘In A Lonely Place’

July 21, 2013 by Katherine Springer

No actor is more associated with the genre of film noir or better suited to interpret its tropes than Humphrey Bogart. His filmography covers a wide range from comedy to westerns, but noir was his specialty. Playing shrewd, playful characters with strict moral codes inhabiting a corrupt world, Bogart appeared in more than twenty noir […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Features, Movies, Touch Of Noir Tagged With: Classic Films, Classic Movies, Column, Film Noir, Opinion Piece, Touch Of Noir

Touch Of Noir: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’, A Film Worthy Of The Label Noir

July 14, 2013 by Katherine Springer

Ahead of next week’s release of Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film Only God Forgives, which reunites him with Drive star Ryan Gosling, it is only fitting to explore the deep film noir roots of the intensely stylish, highly acclaimed Drive. It’s not surprising that Refn won the prize for Best Director at Cannes with this […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Features, Movies, Touch Of Noir Tagged With: Classic Films, Classic Movies, Column, Film Noir, Nicolas Winding Refn, Opinion Piece, Touch Of Noir

Touch Of Noir: Fritz Lang’s Noir Nightmares ‘Scarlet Street’ and ‘The Woman In The Window’

June 30, 2013 by Katherine Springer

    Film noir was born from the evocative shadow play of German Expressionism. As one of the greats of Expressionist cinema, it is only fitting that after fleeing the Nazis Fritz Lang would reinvent himself by making highly stylized noir films in Hollywood. Fritz Lang is best remembered for his classics Metropolis and M, but […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Features, Movies, Touch Of Noir Tagged With: Classic Films, Classic Movies, Column, Film Noir, Fritz Lang, Opinion Piece, Touch Of Noir

Touch Of Noir: Top 5 Film Noir Parodies

June 23, 2013 by Katherine Springer

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

For all the seriousness of film noir, its easily identifiable visual and narrative conventions lend themselves to parody.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Features, Movies, Top 10 Movies, Touch Of Noir Tagged With: The Big Lebowski, The Cheap Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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